'Wing of a Roller' Durer 1512 {{PD-Art}}

4 PM PST the Moon conjuncts Mercury in Pisces, and whatever comes to mind comes tumbling out–and this may have no reference to reality! Great time for fiction writers, poets, con men, liars, or learning to speak with a new accent–for everybody else, this offers varying degrees of verbal and mental creative inspiration and confusion.

By 6 PM PST the Moon is opposed Mars and semi-sextile Venus, dragging the emotions into that reckoning between opposites and making the balancing of male and female (or light and dark, feather and stone, etc) a real challenge. Can be tiring if we actively wrestle with it–just a tad debilitating if we don’t.

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'Dante's Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice' Rossetti 1856 {{PD-Art}}

Void begins 8:19 AM PST; Moon enters Pisces at 9:32 AM PST and wham! conjuncts Neptune, making the emotions and feeling state all-encompassing, fuzzy, amorphous, empathetic, and boundary-less–Danger Will Robinson! as some old robot used to say–we can slip into a dreamy state where all kinds of inattentiveness can get us into all kinds of trouble. I think this aspect, at 00 and with the Sun so nearby and the New Moon the next contact formed, should carry one of those cold-medicine warning labels, warning against driving, operating heavy machinery, eating everything in sight, stripping off your clothing and entering just about any available body of water, or making love with whatever’s nearby as you wear big ol’ rose-colored specs. Oh my. But at least it will be pleasant

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A Magellanic cloud from the Hubble Telescope-Thanks, NASA!

8 AM PST the Pisces Moon sextiles Mercury with Neptune at the midpoint, trines Juno and quincunxes Saturn. Emotions may be way off the mark, formed under illusion, deception, fantasy, or in following ideals, but no matter what, they carry a communication punch that will be empowering for both listeners and speakers, in spite of the changes to the material situation that will be required.

We have an odd Void situation: The Moon heads toward the Void with Mercury only 7 minutes from entering Aquarius, but before the Moon hits the Void point Mercury enters the next sign, effectively Voiding our Void by removing the ‘measurement yardstick’ provided by Mercury! Let’s measure it from the time Luna pulls away from trine with Juno, 9:37 AM PST, though some may prefer the quincunx to Saturn as he has major planet status, leaving at 9:19 AM–but then again, many don’t use the quincunx in timing a Void!

In any case, the Moon enters Aries at 10:28 AM PST.

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'The Courtiers' Workshop' Raspal 1760 {{PD-Art}}

10 AM PST the Pisces Moon trines Juno and sextiles Sedna; we can’t see the way to our own empowerment, and at this time we either feel the truth of this, or intuit it–and this perception allows us to wisely step back and not press our point. Others may feel the compulsive press of the opposition between Sedna and Juno, and be prompted to do something; we will know better.

10 PM PST the Moon quincunxes Saturn and semi-sextiles Neptune; we may be encouraged by our own delusions or fantasies to ignore what must be done to accommodate reality–don’t! Void begins at 10:20 PM PST–this is with the Moon pulling out of exact to Saturn–though neither of these aspects would count with traditional methods of determining Voids–that would happen with the early hours Mars opposition, instead

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Badlands National Park, South Dakota, USA With Thanks to the Archives of Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress {{PD-Art}}

8 AM Pacific time sees the Pisces Moon trine Juno; we can be feeling very empowered at this time, especially if we are vibing to the Collective as a whole–we can draw from the generally available sense of power and the feeling that we can adequately control our surroundings to suit our needs. It’s a rare point of positive feeling grounded in emotional far-sightedness (or perhaps I should say, in ‘Big Picture’ seeing-ness).

5:30 PM PST the Moon arrives at conjunction with Ceres. All that positive thinking from earlier now meets its power-expression. We experience our own natural authority, whether it’s called forward by meeting other authorities or just is; and we can experience nature, or negotiate, in top form.

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'Between Hope and Fear' Alma-Tadema pre-1912 {{PD-Art}}

Void begins at 3:28 AM PST; the Moon enters Pisces at 6:46 AM PST. Immediately there’s a conjunction to Chiron; here the danger is that we may take on free-floating negatives that are just hanging around in the ether. Just before 9 AM PST the Moon sextiles Jupiter, exaggerating whatever we’re feeling–and that could be a magnification of the aforementioned free-floating angst. Our big challenge today will be to both disown anxiety that’s not our own and to keep feelings of magnification, destruction, and general drama from overwhelming. Our true feeling state may be much less impressive than the one we’re invited to be a part of–and the seductive quality of drama could make for a big waste of time.

Just after 6 PM PST the Moon sextiles the Venus/ Pluto conjunction, again offering us a juicy feeling experience centered on vanity, beauty, jealousy, power, and the desire to change things–but that is not necessarily our own. The best thing we can do for ourselves is to know who we are–only if we have a natal Pisces Moon might so much openness to the Collective be manageable.